The People of the Ruins (Paperback)

Trapped in a London laboratory during a worker uprising in 1924, ex-artillery officer and physics instructor Jeremy Tuft awakens 150 years later -- in a neo-medieval society whose inhabitants have forgotten how to build or operate machinery. Not only have his fellow Londoners forgotten most of what humankind used to know, before civilization collapsed, but they don't particularly care to re-learn any of it. Though he is at first disconcerted by the failure of his own era's smug doctrine of Progress, Tuft eventually decides that post-civilized life is simpler, more peaceful. That is, until northern English and Welsh tribes threaten London -- at which point he sets about reinventing weapons of mass destruction. Shanks's post-apocalyptic novel, a pessimistic satire on Wellsian techno-utopian novels, was first published in 1920.

General

Imprint:	Red Lemonade
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2012
First published:	November 2012
Authors:	Edward Shanks • Tom Hodgkinson
Dimensions:	190 x 127 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-935869-58-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General
LSN:	1-935869-58-2
Barcode:	9781935869580

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